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Congressional Briefing: Science-Driven Approaches to Reducing Inequities Through Public Health Policy [npscoalition.org]

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Carey Sipp Carey Sipp 11/17/223:41 PM

Join us for a virtual congressional briefing

SCIENCE-DRIVEN APPROACHES TO REDUCING INEQUITIES THROUGH PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY

Tuesday   •   December 6th   •   1:30-3:00 ET

The National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives (NPSC) will host a congressional briefing on deploying prevention strategies to improve racial equity, particularly in issue areas such as health and education.  Research and experience provide guidance about what works to reduce racial disparities and improve health outcomes for all Americans.  Despite the existence of strategies shown to reduce inequities and foster equitable practices, translating that knowledge into effective policies has lagged behind the science.  Speakers in this briefing will present evidence-based prevention policies that reduce the conditions that perpetuate inequities and strengthen factors that protect against them.

During this session, national experts on this topic will present approaches to advance equity by implementing prevention-informed policies, especially in the areas of health and education.  Speakers will discuss policies likely to have a population level impact and others that are targeted to specific social conditions within communities. They will also discuss how researchers and public sectors can work together to enact such change.

Many universal policies that aim to prevent negative outcomes for all people tend to benefit only certain segments of the population, leaving minority groups in particular with unequal access to needed services.  The science of prevention offers solutions to this problem. To illustrate, Dr. Shelton will discuss how implementation evaluation strategies can provide a framework to identify and resolve the barriers to even-handed enactment of health policies.  Also, implementation science can aid in our understanding of how prevention policies are enforced, further illuminating the root causes of health policy inequities.

Additional solution-based strategies work to reduce existing inequities by promoting health and well-being for specific populations.  Dr. Iruka will discuss how policies focused on preservation, protection, and promotion can ensure that Black children and their families are able to thrive and have equal opportunities to live healthy lives.  Her work not only provides actionable solutions to support Black families, but it is also a model for promoting equity for other negatively affected groups.

Dr. Johnson-Lawrence will demonstrate how successful partnerships between researchers and public officials can learn from policy challenges and failures and move forward to prevent repeated disaster and improve equitable outcomes.  She will provide examples of using community-based approaches from the Flint water crisis to promote health improvements through existing health and community systems.

The pandemic exacerbated preexisting inequalities in rates of unemployment, food insecurity, violence, and mortality to name a few.  Now is the time to ensure U.S. health policy is grounded in science-driven approaches to reduce economic, health, and social disparities for all people across the nation.

[Please click here for more information and to register.]

Carey Smith Sipp

carey.pacescommunites@gmail.com

For Year-end Giving: Please Help Save The PACEs Connection Resource Center with Your Tax-Deductible Gift Today.

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Carey Sipp Carey Sipp 12/2/247:11 AM

Please help us save the Resource Center with your tax-deductible gift today, here.

With the December 31, 2024, deadline looming for payment to maintain the PACEs Connection Resource Center, we hope you’ll help protect this invaluable benefit of your free membership and put supporting PACEs Connection at the top of your list.

“There’s not another resource like this,” said Dana Brown, one of two former PACEs Connection employees working as volunteers to keep the site going since it was revitalized in October, after it had been shut down in April 2024, for lack of funding.  Please make your tax-deductible gift today, here.

“The Resource Center represents 13 years of collecting and curating peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and reports, videos, presentations, and more,” said Carey Sipp, the second former PACEs Connection staffer working to secure funding necessary to keep PACEs Connection up and running.

“Several years ago we started including ‘Research Corner’ reports edited by our dear friend and supporter Harise Stein, MD, of Stanford University, who sends a monthly report of the most recent articles on the effects of abuse, as well as summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), positive childhood experiences (PCEs) and the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs),” said Sipp.

“Saving, in one place, this information about the lifelong effects of positive and adverse childhood experiences—and ways to promote nurturing conditions for children, families, and communities—is too important to leave to chance,” Sipp added.

With encouragement and support from the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives (NPSC) and PACEs Connection’s former fiscal sponsor, Third Sector New England (TSNE)—as well as from many individual supporters—Brown and Sipp helped re-home PACEs Connection to NPSC in September 2024. NPSC now serves as the fiscal sponsor and governing body for PACEs Connection.

Thank you to each of you who donated to PACEs Connection and supported the successful payment to our learning management system, Crowdstack, by November 11th! Your financial support was appreciated tremendously as we collectively raised the $ 14,778.81 needed to maintain our social networking site.

We need your help to continue raising awareness.

The Resource Center is built on a separate technology platform from PACEs Connection, but is linked to it. The platform, “LibGuides” touts itself as being “librarian-first platform for a digital-first world” and is used by libraries and learning institutions worldwide. The annual fee for maintaining the PACEs Connection Resource Center is $3500, due December 31, 2024, or the Resource Center goes down.

“Thanks to the brilliance of PACEs Connection founder Jane Stevens, we’ve offered all the resources here at PACEs Connection at no charge for the last 13 years, and have made posting blogs about conferences, workshops, and consulting services free on the site since its inception,” said Brown.

“There are now more than 61,000 members of this social networking site. We hope our members – especially business owner members who’ve benefited from the years of free publicity PACEs Connection has provided—will support us during this season of year-end giving,” she added.

You can support PACEs Connection today by making an online donation here, or mailing a check made out to the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives – with “PACEs Connection” on the memo line – in care of Dana Brown, 4364 Bonita Road, PMB322, Bonita, CA 91902. To make a wire transfer or other type of gift, please email Carey Sipp at carey.pacescommunities@gmail.com to receive NPSC’s wire transfer or other electronic funds transfer information. No amount is too small!

Carey Smith Sipp

carey.pacescommunites@gmail.com

Register Now for Free Event on Funding, Compliance, and Language under the New Administration

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Carey Sipp Carey Sipp 3/24/2510:33 PM

Register now for this free event on March 27Noon to 1pm EST!In the early months of the year, the Trump Administration introduced sweeping health policy changes with implications for nonprofits and community organizations. Shifts in federal funding, evolving agency priorities, and potential cuts to key health initiatives are raising big questions.CHC: Creating Healthier Communities invites all nonprofit and for-profit leaders to join a webinar March 27 from noon to 1 p.m. to learn more about

🔹 What these changes mean for funding and compliance
🔹 How nonprofits can adapt their messaging strategies
🔹 What challenges—and opportunities—lie ahead

Luke Hartig, a seasoned expert in policy and governance, will provide key insights.  Jean Accius, president and CEO of Creating Healthier Communities (CHCImpact.org)  will share updates on how CHC is navigating these shifts to continue improving community health.

This event is for nonprofit professionals at all levels—including those in development, communications, and leadership—who want to stay ahead of federal policy changes in this evolving landscape.
Register Now
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(L-R) Morgan Zehner of Creating Healthier Communities (CHC), Luke Hartig of Gravity Research, and Carey Sipp of CHC discuss funding sources and the importance of language in current government funding applications.

NOTE: During our Creating Healthier Communities (CHC) Board meeting in Alexandria, Virginia two weeks ago, I heard Hartig speak and answer questions about how to frame the work being done in communities and nonprofits during this time of heightened sensitivity to how the work is described. In my work at PACEs Connection and Creating Healthier Communities I see takeaways that may bode well for resilient communities with regard to how we frame our work. Specifically? While we know certain terms such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (for which we will continue to advocate at PACEs Connection) are words that can cause a negative response in this political climate, some words we use often to describe our work are in favor and will be seen as positive descriptors to potential funders and government agencies.

Words that may help communities gain traction include

– prevention

– health access

– holistic care

– rural supports and focus

Hartig will likely offer additional updates on the importance of word use in funding applications and more when we meet on Thursday. I hope you will register and join us!

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